>>No, because pg_dump itself dumps template1's contents...
>
> Are you planning on extending this line of thought to other things in
> template1 such as operators?
Ah, I see where you are going with this....
I think that we should treat the public schema specially :) That's
because it is much more likely to be dropped and messed with than the
other system objects, in fact you're encouraged to drop it in the docs.
Chris